EP1688551A1 - Elément de fixation pour rail de montage et ensemble de rails - Google Patents

Elément de fixation pour rail de montage et ensemble de rails Download PDF

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Publication number: EP1688551A1
Authority: EP; European Patent Office
Prior art keywords: fastening element; mounting rail; element according; receptacle; fastening
Prior art date: 2005-01-14
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EP05000685A

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EP1688551B1 (fr

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Christopher Simon Gage

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Leviat GmbH

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Halfen GmbH and Co KG

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2005-01-14

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2005-01-14

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2006-08-09

2005-01-14 Application filed by Halfen GmbH and Co KG filed Critical Halfen GmbH and Co KG

2005-01-14 Priority to AT05000685T priority Critical patent/ATE341672T1/de

2005-01-14 Priority to DE502005000136T priority patent/DE502005000136D1/de

2005-01-14 Priority to EP05000685A priority patent/EP1688551B1/fr

2006-08-09 Publication of EP1688551A1 publication Critical patent/EP1688551A1/fr

2006-09-20 Priority to HK06110483.7A priority patent/HK1089218B/xx

2006-10-04 Application granted granted Critical

2006-10-04 Publication of EP1688551B1 publication Critical patent/EP1688551B1/fr

2025-01-14 Anticipated expiration legal-status Critical

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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E04—BUILDING
- E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
- E04B1/00—Constructions in general; Structures which are not restricted either to walls, e.g. partitions, or floors or ceilings or roofs
- E04B1/38—Connections for building structures in general
- E04B1/41—Connecting devices specially adapted for embedding in concrete or masonry
- E04B1/4107—Longitudinal elements having an open profile, with the opening parallel to the concrete or masonry surface, i.e. anchoring rails
- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E04—BUILDING
- E04C—STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; BUILDING MATERIALS
- E04C5/00—Reinforcing elements, e.g. for concrete; Auxiliary elements therefor
- E04C5/16—Auxiliary parts for reinforcements, e.g. connectors, spacers, stirrups
- E04C5/162—Connectors or means for connecting parts for reinforcements
- E04C5/163—Connectors or means for connecting parts for reinforcements the reinforcements running in one single direction
- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E04—BUILDING
- E04C—STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; BUILDING MATERIALS
- E04C5/00—Reinforcing elements, e.g. for concrete; Auxiliary elements therefor
- E04C5/16—Auxiliary parts for reinforcements, e.g. connectors, spacers, stirrups
- E04C5/20—Auxiliary parts for reinforcements, e.g. connectors, spacers, stirrups of material other than metal or with only additional metal parts, e.g. concrete or plastics spacers with metal binding wires
- E04C5/206—Spacers having means to adapt the spacing distance
- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E04—BUILDING
- E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
- E04B1/00—Constructions in general; Structures which are not restricted either to walls, e.g. partitions, or floors or ceilings or roofs
- E04B1/38—Connections for building structures in general
- E04B1/41—Connecting devices specially adapted for embedding in concrete or masonry
- E04B2001/4192—Connecting devices specially adapted for embedding in concrete or masonry attached to concrete reinforcing elements, e.g. rods or wires

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the invention relates to a fastening element for a mounting rail, which is intended for concreting into a concrete component and a corresponding rail arrangement.
mounting rails are used, which are embedded in a concrete component.
Such mounting rails have an example C-shaped cross section, the open side is directed in the concrete state to the outside.
fastening means may be introduced, for example in the form of hammerhead screws by means of which almost any parts, components, devices or the like. Can be screwed tightly to the concrete component.
the mounting rail Before concreting the mounting rail is a precise alignment and fixation of the mounting rail against a formwork and opposite arranged in the casing, provided for setting in concrete reinforcing bars required.
fastening elements for fixing the mounting rail before and during the process of setting in concrete nails Screws or the like.
used by means of which the mounting rail is held on the casing.
flexible wires are used, by means of which the mounting rail is tied to the prepared for the casting process bars.
the aforementioned alignment process of the mounting rail is time-consuming and labor-intensive and may possibly lead to inaccuracies.
the invention has for its object to provide a fastener for a mounting rail and a corresponding rail assembly in which the mounting rail is aligned and securely fixed before and during the concreting process in a simple manner.
a fastener or a corresponding rail assembly wherein the fastener has a receptacle for the mounting rail, and are provided in the means for positive connection of the fastener to at least one reinforcing rod.
the attachment and fixing the position of the mounting rail is done in a simple manner by the fastener attached to the at least one reinforcing bar and then the mounting rail is attached to the receptacle of the fastener. It may also be provided a reverse mounting order, in which first the fastener connected to the mounting rail and then the unit formed thereby is attached to the corresponding reinforcing bar. With little effort, a reliable fixation of the mounting rail is achieved.
a precise position fixing is particularly advantageous on the top of flat ceilings or other thin-walled concrete components, where attachment by conventional means is hardly possible.
the means for positive fastening stretch together with the recording on a plane within which the mounting rail is accurately positioned and securely fixed.
the recesses are formed as a clip connection for clipping onto the reinforcing bar.
the connection with the reinforcing bars can be done without tools in a simple manner, after clipping a sufficiently strong, positive connection is formed.
the clip connection is formed as a rounded pocket with an open side, wherein a width of the open side is less than a diameter of the rounded pocket.
the rounded pocket is matched in its diameter to the diameter of the corresponding reinforcing bar.
Overcoming elastic deformability, the narrower, open one is used during assembly Pressed side on the reinforcing rod, which rests after passing through the open side latching in the rounded pocket under evenly distributed surface pressure.
the named form of the clip connection has proven to be highly resilient.
the rounded pocket may suitably have a circumferential breakout edge with a diameter greater than the diameter of the rounded pocket.
An edge region of the rounded pocket can be broken along the circumferential break-out edge, whereby the inner diameter of the rounded pocket is easily enlarged and adapted to a larger diameter of reinforcing bars.
a plurality of recesses or pockets arranged in particular symmetrically to a center line of the fastening element is provided. This allows a connection of the fastener with reinforcing bars different lateral spacing and also a choice for a lateral offset with respect to the reinforcing bars.
the plurality of fastening means is expediently arranged along V-shaped mutually extending edges of the fastening element.
a height adjustment of the mounting rail relative to the reinforcing bars can be brought about by the V-shaped arrangement of the edges depending on the distance of the reinforcing bars to each other more or less deeply penetrates between them.
a base of the fastener carrying the means for connection is provided with passage openings.
the base plate does not represent a significant disturbance of a monolithic structure of the concrete body.
the receptacle has a contact surface for the mounting rail, which is in particular part of a receptacle for the mounting rail.
the contact surface generates a tilting support between mounting rail and fastener.
a snap fastening for the mounting rail is advantageously provided, by means of which the mounting rail can be fixed with only one hand and without tools on the fastener.
the snap fastening is designed as a snap mandrel, which is provided for insertion into a mounting hole of the mounting rail.
the arrangement is structurally simple in construction, easy to manufacture and has a suitable holding force.
the fastening element expediently has a marking mandrel on its side lying on the outside in relation to the installed state on.
a marking mandrel By means of the marking mandrel, other components such as formwork components can be aligned.
the fastener is advantageously made of particular flexible plastic.
suitable material properties in terms of flexibility and holding force, on the one hand enable damage-free snapping and on the other hand, a sufficiently high holding power.
FIG. 1 shows a perspective overview of an arrangement of reinforcing bars 5, 5 ', 19, which run parallel to one another and approximately at right angles to further reinforcing bars 20.
the reinforcing bars 5, 5 ', 19 are fixed to the reinforcing bars 20 by wire loops 21 against each other and prepared for setting in concrete in a concrete component.
a mounting rail 2 which has an approximately C-shaped profile in cross-section, whose open side faces an indicated by an arrow 17 outside of the concrete component.
the mounting rail 2 is provided with a foam filling 22, which prevents ingress of liquid concrete during casting, and which is removed after curing of the concrete.
the mounting rail 2 is provided for fastening almost any components by means of hammer head screws whose hammer head can be inserted and fixed in the interior of the C-profile.
a number of fasteners 1 is provided, of which the sake of clarity over the shown portion of the mounting rail 2 only a total of two fasteners 1 are shown.
the fastening elements 1 each have a receptacle 3, on which the mounting rail 2 with the respective fastening element 1 is connected in more detail below. Furthermore, the fastening element 1 with means 4 positively connected to the reinforcing bars 5, 5 '.
the means 4 consist of a plurality of recesses 33, 33 ', which are optionally in different combinations depending on the distance between the two reinforcing bars 5, 5' to each other on the reinforcing bars 5, 5 'plugged.
the mounting rail 2 is still provided on its side facing away from the open side with arranged at regular intervals anchors 30, which cause a high holding force of the mounting rail 2 in the concrete component in the cured state of the concrete.
the arrangement shown is ready for setting in concrete, wherein the mounting rail 2 relative to the reinforcing bars 5, 5 'is fixed in position by means of the fastening elements 1.
the number of recesses 33, 33 ' are formed as rounded, one-sided open pockets 6, which are described in more detail in connection with FIG. 3.
the receptacle 3 for mounting the mounting rail 2 (Fig. 1) comprises in the illustrated embodiment, a cross-sectionally approximately U-shaped receptacle 13 with a central bearing surface 12 and laterally adjacent thereto side walls 24.
the receptacle 13 is in its contour to the cross section of Mounting rail 2 adapted so that the mounting rail 2 positively and at least approximately play in the receptacle 13 can be kept.
the abutment surface 12 and the side walls 24 lie flat against the outside of the mounting rail 2, as shown in FIG. Centered on the contact surface 12, a snap mandrel 15 is arranged, which is provided for generating a snap fastener 14 shown in FIG. Laterally of the snap mandrel 15, the contact surface 12 is provided with rounded recesses 25.
the fastening element 1 still has on both sides of the receptacle 13 each one of outside edges 23 in the direction of the outside 17 facing marker mandrel 18, which are provided for aligning a shuttering relative to the tub 13 and the mounting rail 2 (Fig. After alignment, the marking mandrels 18 can be canceled.
the fastener 1 is made as a total thin-walled, made of flexible injection-molded plastic component with a thin-walled receptacle 13 and a thin-walled, flat base plate 10, in which the rounded pockets 6 are formed.
the flexible plastic material is so adapted to the geometric configuration of the fastener 1 and the cross-sectional shape of the reinforcing rods 5, 5 'that the rounded pockets 6 can be clipped to form a clip connection to the reinforcing bars 5, 5' (Fig ,
Fig. 3 shows a front view of the fastener 1 of FIG. 1, therefore, the recesses 33, 33 'along V-shaped mutually extending edges 9, 9' of the fastener 1 are arranged.
the fastening element 1 with its edges 9, 9 'and its recesses 33, 33' is constructed symmetrically to a center line 8.
the snap mandrel 15 protrudes from the contact surface 12 and passes through a mounting hole 16 of the mounting rail 2, whereby a snap fastening 14 is formed for the mounting rail 2 with the fastener 1.
each a circumferential break edge 31 as sharp-edged, linear depression formed in the base plate 10.
a diameter D of the break-out edge 31 is greater than the diameter d of the rounded pocket 6 and matched in its diameter to the next larger diameter dimension of the reinforcing bars 5, 5 '(FIG. 2).
the section between the peripheral contour of the rounded pocket 6 and the break-out edge 31 can be broken open manually or with the aid of pliers, whereby along the contour of the break-out edge 31 an enlarged pocket 6 with the diameter D is formed, which is used to receive reinforcing bars 5, 5 '. is suitable with a corresponding diameter.
the illustration of FIG. 3 can still be seen that in the base plate 10, a number of passage openings 11 are formed, which allow a flow through the concrete during casting.
Fig. 4 shows an enlarged view of the detail IV of FIG. 3, according to which the snap mandrel 15 comprises a cylindrical base body 26 which projects vertically from the contact surface 12. Towards its free end, the base body 26 merges into two elastically resilient spring tongues 27, which are separated from one another by means of a slot 28.
the slot 28 allows an elastic deflection of the two spring tongues 27 toward each other when pressed into the mounting hole 16. After insertion spring tongues 27 spring apart in the position shown, wherein locking edges 32 of the spring tongues 27 hold the mounting rail 2 along the peripheral edge of the mounting hole 16 ,
Fig. 5 shows a variant of the snap mandrel 15, in which the cylindrical base body 26 is provided with a number of circumferential, conical locking flanges 29.
the number of locking flanges 29 allows a different degrees of depression of the base body 26 in the mounting hole 16 (Fig. 4), wherein the respective innermost penetrated locking flange 29 holds the mounting rail 2 at its mounting hole 16.

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EP05000685A 2005-01-14 2005-01-14 Elément de fixation pour rail de montage et ensemble de rails Expired - Lifetime EP1688551B1 (fr)

Priority Applications (4)

Application Number	Priority Date	Filing Date	Title
AT05000685T ATE341672T1 (de)	2005-01-14	2005-01-14	Befestigungselement für eine montageschiene und schienenanordnung
DE502005000136T DE502005000136D1 (de)	2005-01-14	2005-01-14	Befestigungselement für eine Montageschiene und Schienenanordnung
EP05000685A EP1688551B1 (fr)	2005-01-14	2005-01-14	Elément de fixation pour rail de montage et ensemble de rails
HK06110483.7A HK1089218B (en)		2006-09-20	Fixing element for a mounting rail and rail arrangement

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EP05000685A EP1688551B1 (fr)	2005-01-14	2005-01-14	Elément de fixation pour rail de montage et ensemble de rails

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